 The
Coblentz Society is pleased to announce that Dr. Katherine Antolin
Bakeev of GlaxoSmithKline Plc is to receive the 2007 Craver Award in
Applied Vibrational Spectroscopy. In 2006, The Coblentz Society
created this award to recognize young professional spectroscopists
that have made significant contributions in applied vibrational
spectroscopy. The award is named for Clara D. Craver in recognition
of her pioneering efforts in promoting the practice of infrared
vibrational spectroscopy and her many years of service to the
Coblentz Society. The Coblentz Society is a non-profit organization
founded in 1954 with the purpose of fostering the understanding and
application of vibrational spectroscopy. This inaugural Craver award
is presented to Dr. Bakeev in recognition of her efforts in, and
promotion of, near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy and chemometrics to
create greater sophistication in process analytical methods and to
obtain improved process understanding.
The Craver Award was presented by Mary Carrabba, Coblentz Society
president, at the 2007 FACSS Conference held October 14–18th in
Memphis, TN. Dr. Bakeev presented the Coblentz Society’s Craver
Award Plenary Lecture in Applied Vibrational Spectroscopy on
Wednesday, October 17th. Her talk was entitled “Increased process
understanding through use of in-situ vibrational spectroscopy”.
Additionally, a separate half-day award symposium of six invited
presentations was held following her lecture at this conference. The
speakers included Prof. Roumiana Tsenkova of Kobe University, Nancy
Jestel of Sabic Innovative Plastics, Bill Muller of Foss NIRSystems,
David Himmelsbach of the USDA Russel Research Center, Prof. Fred
McClure (emeritus) of NC State University, and Prof. Fotios
Papadimitrakopoulos of the University of Connecticut.
Dr. Katherine A. Bakeev currently works with GlaxoSmithKline in King
of Prussia, PA. There she is part of the Process Analytical
Technology and Chemometrics group within Strategic Technologies,
using spectroscopic tools for increased process understanding, and
integrating their use within the development group and transferring
them to manufacturing. The scope of her work includes developing
methods for process analysis from lab to manufacturing scale. She
was previously a product specialist with Foss NIRSystems, Silver
Spring, MD. In that role she supported applications of NIR for the
pharmaceutical and chemical markets on the Eastern US. She also did
work in process analytical technology while working for
International Specialty Products, Wayne, NJ from 1995-2000. Her
industrial career started with AMP Incorporated (now Tyco
Electronics) in Harrisburg, PA. While still a student she did
internships with 3M in St. Paul, MN and for Dow Chemical Company-
working on synthetic polymer chemistry research in the laboratory of
Prof. Virgil Percec at Case Western Reserve University.
Her education is in polymer science and engineering with a BS from
Case Western Reserve University (1987) and PhD from the University
of Massachusetts at Amherst (1993). Her graduate research under the
direction of Prof. Shaw Ling Hsu was in studying polymorphic
transitions of ferroelectric copolymers using vibrational
spectroscopy, thermal analysis and X-ray analysis. Before starting
her graduate studies she was the recipient of a Rotary Foundation
Scholarship which allowed her to spend a year in the laboratory of
Prof. Paul Rempp at the Institut Charles Sadron in Strasbourg,
France where she worked on polymer synthesis and characterization.
She also holds a Masters in Technology Management from Stevens
Institute of Technology (2001).
Over the years Katherine has published several papers and presented
numerous presentations on the use of NIR. She has taught a course on
Process Analytical Spectroscopy at the Eastern Analytical Symposium
(EAS) and at the International Diffuse Reflectance Conference (IDRC,
commonly known as the “Chambersburg” conference). She is the editor
of the best-selling book Process Analytical Technology:
Spectroscopic tools and implementation strategies for the chemical
and pharmaceutical industries.
Katherine is the current president of the Council for Near Infrared
Spectroscopy and a member of the Coblentz Society, the Society for
Applied Spectroscopy and the American Chemical Society. She also
actively participates in ASTM committees on Pharmaceutical
Applications of PAT, and E13 for Molecular Spectroscopy and
Separation Science.
She is the daughter of Ivanka Velikonja Antolin and the late Viktor
Antolin. She is the 12th of 13 children, and spent her childhood in
Fairfield, PA. Her elementary education was at the Mother Seton
School in Emmitsburg, MD. She graduated from Delone Catholic High
School in 1983. She and her husband, Dr. Kirill N. Bakeev, live in
Newark, DE where they enjoy ballroom dancing, gardening, and being
amongst their friends. |
